Need to solve many problems

On the morning of November 29, at the National Convention Center, Hanoi, the Hanoi Department of Information and Communications in collaboration with the Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services Association held the opening ceremony of the Vietnam - Asia Smart City Conference 2023.

Event - Hanoi builds a smart city: Need to solve many difficult problems — Overview of the Vietnam - Asia Smart City Conference 2023.

The conference was held with the aim of promoting the development of smart and sustainable cities, an opportunity to gather opinions from experts and businesses on building a smart Hanoi city as well as promoting business cooperation between Hanoi and international information technology enterprises.

Event - Hanoi builds a smart city: Need to solve many difficult problems (Figure 2). — Hanoi city leaders visit booths introducing technology products

Speaking at the opening of the conference, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh said that to build a smart city, Hanoi has many important advantages, but it also needs to solve many difficult problems in harmonizing conservation and development; between urbanization, economic development and environmental protection, people's health care...

According to the Chairman of Hanoi, a sustainable city is a city that develops with all smart utilities, demonstrated through "smart" choices, "smart" solutions, and "smart" technology. Hanoi is having many questions about the current status of building and developing smart cities in Hanoi and other provinces and cities across the country; what policies should be recommended for the process of building sustainable smart cities not only in Hanoi but also in other provinces and cities for research and reference...

Event - Hanoi builds a smart city: Need to solve many difficult problems (Figure 3). — Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh emphasized that a sustainably developed city is a city that develops with all smart utilities.

The Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee also expressed his hope that the Conference with the theme "Data Mining - Building a Smart City, Sustainable Development" and 3 thematic workshop groups with the following contents: Government, People and Enterprises; Technology, Data and Connection; Cooperation and Development will share truly useful recommendations, experiences and practical lessons, thereby helping Hanoi choose and better take advantage of opportunities to realize the goal of building a green, safe, fast-growing and sustainable capital...

At the Conference, Mr. Truong Gia Binh - Chairman of the VINASA Founding Council shared that the Vietnam - Asia Smart City Conference 2023 was held at a time when Vietnam has many resources to shine and Hanoi will be the brightest spot in building an ecosystem of artificial intelligence and chips.

On that basis, Smart City is the decisive factor and Hanoi is the capital with the role of leading other localities in green growth, core technology, artificial intelligence and semiconductors. To do this, Hanoi must have a specific mechanism and outstanding policies to carry out the tasks. In addition, Hanoi needs to take the lead in training new human resources.

“Hanoi is not only a Smart City for itself but also a city that creates hardware, software, and human resources to make cities in the region, leading the way in green transformation. This is an essential condition to join the semiconductor technology, creating opportunities for information technology companies to have more opportunities to develop”, the Chairman of the VINASA Founding Council suggested.

Event - Hanoi builds a smart city: Need to solve many difficult problems (Figure 4). — Mr. Truong Gia Binh - Chairman of VINASA Founding Council spoke at the conference.

Mr. Nguyen Huy Dung - Deputy Minister of Information and Communications said that developing smart cities is a continuous and long-term process, so it requires a long-term, comprehensive vision and a holistic approach, not just focusing on the technological aspect. Just like digital transformation, it is more of a change in thinking and awareness. Developing smart cities is about building a modern and effective urban development and operation method based on the application of innovative and creative technologies, not a separate set of systems and applications of specialized agencies because urban issues are closely related to each other.

"It is necessary to consider urban information infrastructure, digital infrastructure and especially data infrastructure as essential urban infrastructure, as the foundation for smartening other technical infrastructures and socio-economic infrastructures. A strong, unified and secure information infrastructure is the foundation for building digital government, digital economy and digital society in urban space," said Mr. Dung .

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